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#: {{usex|I '''keep''' a small stock of painkillers for emergencies.|lang=en}} |
#: {{usex|I '''keep''' a small stock of painkillers for emergencies.|lang=en}} |
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# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[maintain]] the [[condition]] of. |
# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[maintain]] the [[condition]] of. |
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#: {{usex|I '''keep''' my specimens under glass to protect them.|lang=en}} |
#: {{usex|I '''keep''' my specimens under glass to protect them. The abundance of squirrels '''kept''' the dogs running for hours.|lang=en}} |
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#: {{usex|The abundance of squirrels '''kept''' the dogs running for hours.|lang=en}} |
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# {{context|transitive|archaic|lang=en}} To [[remain]] in, to be confined to. |
# {{context|transitive|archaic|lang=en}} To [[remain]] in, to be confined to. |
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#* '''1605''', {{w|William Shakespeare}}, ''{{w|King Lear}}'', III.ii, |
#* '''1605''', {{w|William Shakespeare}}, ''{{w|King Lear}}'', III.ii, |
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#: {{usex|May the Lord '''keep''' you from harm.|lang=en}} |
#: {{usex|May the Lord '''keep''' you from harm.|lang=en}} |
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# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To [[continue]]. |
# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To [[continue]]. |
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#*{{quote-book|year=1913|author={{w|Joseph C. Lincoln}}|chapter=7 |
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|title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5535161W Mr. Pratt's Patients] |
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|passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and '''kept''' hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}} |
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#*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-28|author={{w|Joris Luyendijk}} |
#*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-28|author={{w|Joris Luyendijk}} |
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|volume=189|issue=3|page=21|magazine={{w|The Guardian Weekly}} |
|volume=189|issue=3|page=21|magazine={{w|The Guardian Weekly}} |
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#: {{usex|I '''keep''' taking the tablets, but to no avail.|lang=en}} |
#: {{usex|I '''keep''' taking the tablets, but to no avail.|lang=en}} |
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# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To remain edible or otherwise usable. |
# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To remain edible or otherwise usable. |
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#: {{usex|Potatoes can '''keep''' if they are in a [[root cellar]].|lang=en}} |
#: {{usex|Potatoes can '''keep''' if they are in a [[root cellar]]. Latex paint won't '''keep''' indefinitely.|lang=en}} |
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#: {{usex|Latex paint won't '''keep''' indefinitely.|lang=en}} |
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# {{context|intransitive|copulative|lang=en}} To remain in a state. |
# {{context|intransitive|copulative|lang=en}} To remain in a state. |
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#: {{usex|The rabbit avoided detection by '''keeping''' still.|lang=en}} |
#: {{usex|The rabbit avoided detection by '''keeping''' still.|lang=en}} |
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#* '''1914''', Robert Joos, ''Success with Hens'', Forbes & company, page 217: |
#* '''1914''', Robert Joos, ''Success with Hens'', Forbes & company, page 217: |
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#*: Of course boys are boys and need watching, but there is little watching necessary when they '''keep''' chickens.'' |
#*: Of course boys are boys and need watching, but there is little watching necessary when they '''keep''' chickens.'' |
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#* {{quote-news|year=2011| date=December 14| author=Steven Morris| |
#* {{quote-news|year=2011| date=December 14| author=Steven Morris|title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave| work=Guardian| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/14/woman-killed-kitten-microwave-jail| |
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|passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from '''keeping''' animals for 10 years.}} |
|passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from '''keeping''' animals for 10 years.}} |
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#: {{usex|He has been keeping '''orchids''' since retiring.|lang=en}} |
#: {{usex|He has been keeping '''orchids''' since retiring.|lang=en}} |
Revision as of 08:24, 2 October 2013
English
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Pronunciation
- enPR: kēp, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "/kiːp/" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) kepen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English Template:term/t, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic Template:term/t (compare West Frisian (deprecated template usage) kypje ‘to look’), variant of Template:term/t (compare Old English (deprecated template usage) capian ‘to look’, Dutch (deprecated template usage) kapen ‘to seize, snatch’, German (deprecated template usage) kapfen ‘to gape’, Danish (deprecated template usage) kope), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European Template:term/t, Template:term/t (compare Lithuanian (deprecated template usage) žẽbti ‘to eat reluctantly’, Russian (deprecated template usage) забота (zabota) ‘care, worry’).
Verb
keep (third-person singular simple present keeps, present participle keeping, simple past and past participle kept)
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To maintain possession of.
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- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To maintain the condition of.
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- (deprecated template usage) (transitive, archaic) To remain in, to be confined to.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, III.ii,
- The wrathful skies / Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, III.ii,
- (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book VIII:
- And than Sir Trystrames rode prevayly unto the posterne where kepte hym La Beale Isode, and there she made hym grete chere, and thanked God of his good spede.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book VIII:
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To restrain.
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- (deprecated template usage) (transitive, with from) To protect, guard.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- cursse on thy cruell hond, / That twise hath sped; yet shall it not thee keepe / From the third brunt of this my fatall brond [...].
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- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- (deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To continue.
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- (deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To remain edible or otherwise usable.
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- (deprecated template usage) (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state.
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- (deprecated template usage) (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
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- (deprecated template usage) (transitive, of living things) To raise; to care for.
- 1914, Robert Joos, Success with Hens, Forbes & company, page 217:
- Of course boys are boys and need watching, but there is little watching necessary when they keep chickens.
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- 1914, Robert Joos, Success with Hens, Forbes & company, page 217:
- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To supply with necessities and financially support a person.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "keep" is not valid. See WT:LOL. terms starting with “keep”
- keep-away
- keep around
- keep at
- keep away
- keep back
- keep down
- keep faith
- keep fit
- keep from
- keep going
- keep in mind
- keep it down
- keep it on the barber pole
- keep it real
- keep it up
- keep mum
- keep off
- keep on
- keep on truckin'
- keep one's cards close to one's chest
- keep one's cool
- keep one's eye on the ball
- keep one's eyes peeled
- keep one's head
- keep one's head above water
- keep one's lips sealed
- keep one on one's toes
- keep oneself to oneself
- keep out
- keep out of
- keep quiet
- keep shtum
- keep somebody in stitches
- keep somebody posted
- keep someone in the loop
- keep straight
- keep tabs on
- keep the wolf from the door
- keep track
- keep up
- keep up with
- keep wicket
- keep with
- keep your pecker up
- keep one's hair on
- keep one's shirt on
- keepalive
- keepie-uppie/keepy-uppy
- keepnet
- keepsake
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Noun
keep (plural keeps)
- (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) Care, notice
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
- So Sir Gareth strayned hym so that his olde wounde braste ayen on bledynge; but he was hote and corragyous and toke no kepe, but with his grete forse he strake downe the knyght [...].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
- (deprecated template usage) (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to Wikipedia:keep, the word comes "from the Middle English term kype, meaning basket or cask, and was a term applied to the shell keep at Guînes, said to resemble a barrel".)
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
- He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep.
Derived terms
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Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
keep (genitive keebi, partitive keepi)
Declension
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Middle English
Noun
keep
- note
- take keep — “take note”
- Chaucer, G.P. 503-4:
- And shame it is, if a preest take keep
- A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep
Yucatec Maya
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) IPA(key): /keːp˩/
Noun
keep (plural keepoʼob)
Synonyms
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English terms with archaic senses
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English intransitive verbs
- English copulative verbs
- en:Cricket
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- English irregular verbs
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian nouns
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- 200 English basic words
- Yucatec Maya terms with IPA pronunciation
- Yucatec Maya lemmas
- Yucatec Maya nouns
- yua:Anatomy